Greg Hintermeister

Greg Hintermeister is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM focusing on user experience and is an IBM Master Inventor. He has extensive experience designing user interaction for IBM Flex System Manager, virtualization products, mobile applications, and numerous Web applications. Greg is a regular speaker at executive briefings and technical conferences. You can reach him at gregh@us.ibm.com, on Twitter @greghint, and interact with his thoughts on user experience, inventing, and more at his technical blog.

FSM Mobile 1.1 sports some major enhancements that let you easily monitor and manage your Flex and PureFlex resources from your phone. You can run actions, view job status and firmware levels, and more!

Greg Hintermeister takes a look at how IBM Systems Director lets you create and manage workloads so that you can keep track of the work that makes your company money and the resources that support your workloads.

In this article, Greg Hintermeister explores how you can create and deploy into your own workload-aware system pool using IBM Systems Director VMControl as the tool to create and manage the system pool. Hintermeister will also provide some details about capturing and deploying your AIX, Linux on Power, and IBM i workloads into that cloud.

There's a gem that not many POWER IT professionals know about: IBM Mobile Systems Remote (IBM Remote). This mobile app can help you manage your IBM BladeCenter chassis, IBM System x systems, and the power blades inside them. IBM Research has developed the IBM Remote app. . . .

Greg Hintermeister walks you through the setup and administration options for the IBM Flex System Manager appliance—options that help you quickly bring your IBM PureFlex systems management environment into production.

The IBM Flex System Manager is an appliance designed to streamline management of the highly integrated IBM PureFlex System. Greg Hintermeister takes you on a tour of Flex System Manager's impressive list of systems management capabilities, showing how the appliance can help optimize usage of physical and virtual system resources, workloads, storage, and networking.

In The Art Of War, Sun Tzu wrote that the winning strategist only seeks battle after victory has been won. To turn this maxim on its head, I would also suggest that the successful warrior does not declare defeat before any battle has been lost....More

Erwin Earley dives into LPI certification exam Objective 104.1, which covers the creation of partitions and filesystems and is the first objective in the Devices, Linux Filesystems, and Filesystem Hierarchy Standard topic....More

eBooks & Training

The six articles in this ebook present a half dozen simple yet powerful security topics that any IT pro can digest in lunchtime reading. The title comes from a similar collection of basic physics lectures by the brilliant physicist and Nobel laureate Dr. Richard Feynman....More

IBM i has extremely robust intrinsic security, and Linux, although much less secure than either AIX or IBM i, has many more eyes watching for problems. But AIX has some significant corner cases where security can be breached if you're not careful....More